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Economist Phil Levine developed his price calculator to help families understand the cost of a degree without deciphering complex aid formulas. Colleges are queuing up to use it.

“If you’re not from a high-income family, there’s not a lot to look forward to in terms of college costs going forward, given these policies,” says economist Phil Levine, who studies college pricing.

Professor Jennifer Chudy says “explicitly racialized politics” have become normalized: “I think the person in the White House has emboldened people who may have felt silently sympathetic in the past.”

WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends the books she’s looking forward to including a new book by Kate Price, associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women.

Paula A. Johnson called on the new physicians and dentists to exercise “an important form of citizenship” by translating their scientific expertise… to uphold “Veritas” in an “atmosphere of mistrust.”

Professor Jennifer Chudy on the history of solidarity as a concept and call to action, from Roman law to Black Lives Matter, and a study into white Americans who feel sympathy with black Americans.

Tina Romero ’06, daughter of legendary zombie movie director George A. Romero, delivers a 'big gay zombie movie' in Queens of the Dead. The film is about a drag party upended by a zombie outbreak.

Increased endowment taxes could represent 10-20% of operating budgets for institutions, impacting “many aspects of what they do, including the availability of financial aid,” said Phillip Levine.

Yelyzaveta Zablotska ‘27: “We’re international students, not political pawns... But we must remember why we were drawn to this country in the first place: because it is a nation for dreamers.”